All Outputs (122)

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

Where is the happiness in dementia? (2016)
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Our current research aims to explore how the emotional experiences of individuals with dementia are understood, and to improve the design and delivery of care interventions. A preliminary, incidental, finding from our initial systematic literature se... Read More about Where is the happiness in dementia?.

Patterns and persistence of behavioural and psychological symptoms in those with cognitive impairment: the importance of apathy (2016)
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Objective To study the stability and emergence of a range of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPS), their association with mortality and the effect of covariates on these transitions in a population-based study of cognitively impaired older p... Read More about Patterns and persistence of behavioural and psychological symptoms in those with cognitive impairment: the importance of apathy.

Palliative care in dementia: does it work? (2016)
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The topic of palliative care in dementia has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Entering palliative+care+dementia into PubMed yields only 10 papers before 1990, the first from 1982. In contrast, there have been 100 or so papers in each of... Read More about Palliative care in dementia: does it work?.

What do we know about the application of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in healthcare practice regarding decision-making for frail and older people? A systematic literature review (2015)
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Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses (2015)
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Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia (2015)
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This article, the fifth in a series on dementia, discusses the principles of management and treatment of people with dementia. It describes how to proceed after a diagnosis of dementia has been made in the early stages of the condition, and general m... Read More about Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia.

Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys (2015)
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Background: The number of beds in care homes (with and without nurses) in the United Kingdom is three times greater than the number of beds in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Care homes are predominantly owned by a range of commercial, not-f... Read More about Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys.

Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England (2015)
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Objectives To explore what commissioners of care, regulators, providers, and care home residents in England identify as the key mechanisms or components of different service delivery models that support the provision of National Health Service (NHS)... Read More about Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England.

Football and dementia: A qualitative investigation of a community based sports group for men with early onset dementia (2014)
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This study investigates the impact of a weekly group providing sport and physical activities for men with early onset dementia established by Notts County Football in the Community (NCFC). There were three aims: investigate the effect of early onset... Read More about Football and dementia: A qualitative investigation of a community based sports group for men with early onset dementia.

Detecting alcohol problems in older adults: can we do better? (2014)
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The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol (2014)
Journal Article

Long term institutional care in the UK is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of healthcare provision - ad hoc, reactive and... Read More about The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol.

Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review (2014)
Journal Article

Background Care homes in the UK rely on general practice for access to specialist medical and nursing care as well as referral to therapists and secondary care. Service delivery to care homes is highly variable in both quantity and quality. This var... Read More about Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review.

Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (2014)
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Objective A wide range of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) are common in dementia, and it has been suggested that groups of correlated symptoms should be studied together. Here, we describe the groups of BPSD that have been identified in... Read More about Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Improving access to psychological therapies and older people: Findings from the Eastern Region (2014)
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Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer (2014)
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A number of tools exist to measure quality of life (QoL) for people with dementia (PwD). A selection of existing measures are summarised, obtained from an online literature survey, comprising of scales administered either by healthcare professionals... Read More about Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer.

Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia (2014)
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The increase in the elderly population over the last thirty years with consequent increase in the number of people living with dementia (PwD) has resulted in a research focus on improving quality-of-life and well-being beyond basic needs, to address... Read More about Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia.

The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people (1998)
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Objectives. To examine, using the published literature and local service experience, the contributions that carers can make to the development and evaluation of specialist mental health services for the elderly. Methods. MEDLINE search for relevant p... Read More about The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people.

Death-coincidences or wishful thinking? The Society for Psychical Research and the 1894 Census of Hallucinations (1994)
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The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation (1992)
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The Hachinski Ischaemic Score (HIS) was first introduced in 1975 as a clinical scale intended to differentiate cases of dementia resulting from multiple strokes (multi‐infarct dementia) from those with primary degenerative dementias. Its conceptual b... Read More about The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation.